Liberal Party (South Korea)

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The Liberal Party (

anti-communist political party in South Korea established in 1951 by Syngman Rhee
.

History

Logo of the second iteration of the party

As the

National Association for the Rapid Realisation of Korean Independence
" (대한독립촉성국민회), "Korean Federation of Labor" (대한노동조합총연맹), "Peasant Federation" (농민조합연맹), and "Korean Council of Wives" (대한부인회) as temporary sub-organizations under the Liberal Party.

Ideology

Although the Liberal Party name is used, it is not the traditional definition as used in the West. For example, the Liberal Party advocated for

Hitlerjugend. To this day, liberal democracy (자유민주주의) in South Korea is still used in a similar sense to "anti-communist system" or "free world against communism" by the conservative camp of South Korea, rather than the same meaning as Western liberal democracy.[14][15]

As its national values during its reign, the Liberal Party put forward "

resistance nationalism.[16][17] The Liberal Party supported a discriminatory policy against hwagyo (화교; 華僑) based on Korean ethnic supremacy and anti-PRC sentiment.[20]

Election results

President

Election Candidate Votes % Result
1952 Syngman Rhee 5,238,769 74.62 Elected
1956 5,046,437 69.99 Elected
March 1960 9,633,376 100 Elected

Vice President

Election Candidate Votes % Result
1952 Lee Beom-seok 1,815,692 25.45 Not elected
1956 Lee Ki-poong 3,805,502 44.03 Not elected
March 1960 8,337,059 79.19 Elected

Legislature

House of Representatives

Election Leader Votes % Seats Position Status
Constituency Party list Total +/–
1954
Rhee Syng-man
 2,756,081 36.79
114 / 203
 new 1st Government
1958 3,607,092 42.07
127 / 233
 Increase 13 Government
1960 Cho Gyeong-gyu 249,960 2.75
2 / 233
 Decrease 125 3rd Opposition
1963 Chang Taek-sang 271,820 2.92
0 / 134
0 / 44
0 / 175
 Decrease 2 7th Extra-parliamentary
1967 Lee Jae-hak 393,448 3.62
0 / 134
0 / 44
0 / 175
 Steady 3rd Extra-parliamentary

House of Councillors

Election Leader Votes % Seats Position Status
1960 Cho Gyeong-gyu 653,748 6.12
4 / 58
 2nd Opposition

Notes

  1. ^ a b The name sometimes translated as Liberty Party,[8][9][10] or Freedom Party.[11] In South Korea, the terms "liberal", "liberty", and "freedom" all tend to be translated as Jayu (Korean: 자유; Hanja: 自由).
  2. ^ a b c first iteration
  3. ^ a b c second iteration
  4. ^ 1960

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 9788976968029
    .
  2. ^ 한국정치연구회, ed. (2007). 키워드 로 읽는 한국 현대사 - 1권. 이매진. p. 253.
  3. ^ 《현대 한국정치 이론: 역사 현실 1945 ~ 2011》240p ~ 265p
  4. ^ "파시즘의 재현(2): 자유당의 지배이데올로기" [Reproducing fascism(2): Liberal Party's ruling ideology.]. Suncheon Square Shinmun (in Korean). 18 December 2015. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  5. ISBN 9788988410943
    .
  6. ISBN 9788901243733
    .
  7. ^ Hwasook Nam, ed. (2009). Building Ships, Building a Nation: Korea's Democratic Unionism Under Park Chung Hee (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies). University of Washington Press. p. 39. ... Political parties of the time, including Syngman Rhee's extreme right-wing Liberal Party (the Chayudang, which was established in 1951), seem to have felt obliged to include the goal of building a democratic and equitable ...
  8. ISBN 978-0-19-530824-2
    , retrieved 2023-08-15
  9. ^ Roucek, Joseph S. “Sociological Elements of a Theory of Terror and Violence.” The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 21, no. 2 (1962): 165–72. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3484432.
  10. ISSN 0021-9118
    .
  11. ^ An Seonjae. "Hyodang". Sogang University. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  12. ^ Moon, Chung-in, and Sang-young Rhyu. "'Overdeveloped' State and the Political Economy of Development in the 1950s: A Reinterpretation". Asian Perspective, vol. 23, no. 1, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999, pp. 179–203.
  13. ^ Joong-Seok Seo, The Korean War and Rise in Power of the Rhee Syngman Regime, History Review《역사비평》, 9 (Summer 1990) p.141
  14. ^ a b Hong Tai-young, eds. (2015). ‘Excessive Nation’ and ‘Indiscoverable Individual’: ‘One-people principle’ and particularity of Korean nationalism. KCI dissertation.
  15. ^
    Joongang Ilbo
    (in Korean). 19 April 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  16. ^
    ISBN 9788973461325
    .
  17. ^
    ISBN 9788942338115
    .
  18. ^ "3.15 부정선거는 이승만을 위한 것이 아니었다?". 프레시안. 11 April 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  19. ^ 朴錫龍 (2007). 鄭鑑錄: 우리 민족 의 삶 과 역사. p. 319.
  20. ^ "한국은 어떻게 화교를 혐오해왔나 '137년의 기록'" [How Korea has hated hwagyo. "Record of 137 Years".]. The Hankyoreh (in Korean). 26 October 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
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